fastnews · ai news monitoring

Track what matters.
Ignore the rest.

FastNews monitors 1000+ articles per day across 50+ outlets, AI-scores them against the tags you actually care about, and only pings you when relevance crosses your threshold.

vsdev Pro · €3.50/mofree tier · 3 tagsmanifest v3<12m median latency

adaptive thresholds · email digest · webhook

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1000+articles / day
92%precision target
50+outlets
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live in chrome web store · gpt-4o-mini scoring · 50+ outlets

Tag, score, notify.

three steps
01 · tag

Tag any topic in plain English

Group keywords into topics — "Anthropic", "semiconductors", your competitor, your favourite club. Each group has its own threshold, delivery channel, snooze rules.

02 · score

AI scores every article

GPT-4o-mini rates each new headline (importance 0–100, urgency, category, one-line summary). Cosine similarity over your tag corpus + BM25 deduplicate near-identical reposts.

03 · notify

Notify only when relevance > threshold

Per-tag adaptive threshold. Mark a hit as a false positive and the threshold tightens automatically. In-app feed, optional email digest, optional webhook.

Engineering

real plumbing
RSS / Atom50+ custom scrapersGPT-4o-mini scoringCosine + BM25 dedupAdaptive thresholdsSupabase PostgresEmail digestWebhookManifest V3chrome.alarms

vsdev Pro · €3.50 / month

one plan, every extension

free

€0
  • 3 tag groups
  • In-app feed
  • Up to 5 alerts / day

vsdev Pro

€3.50/mo
  • Unlimited tag groups
  • Email digest + webhook
  • Includes Drafto Pro, Is it fake? Pro
  • One login, one bill

Questions

straight answers

How is this different from Google Alerts?

Google Alerts hits you on every keyword match. FastNews scores each article 0–100 by your tag corpus and only pings on the noise-free top slice. The threshold adapts when you mark false positives.

How fast can it tell me about a story?

Sources are polled every 5 minutes during peak hours, less off-peak. End-to-end median latency from publication to push is under 12 minutes.

Do you store article text?

Only headlines and the AI's scored summary, attached to your tags for 30 days. Full bodies are fetched on demand from the source on click and never persisted.

Pricing?

€3.50/mo as part of vsdev Pro — one plan unlocks every vsdev extension. Free tier covers up to 3 tags.

cut the noise

Only the news you actually need.

Install free, upgrade when you need more tags.